MISSION INFO
Global Missions
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Mission Appalachia (ASP) - Jonesville, VA
June 9-16, 2012
Travel to Jonesville, Virginia for a one-week experience working with Appalachia Service Project (ASP), a Christian home repair ministry through which volunteers and staff repair homes for low-income families in rural Central Appalachia. Construction skills are not required to participate. This mission costs about $400 per participant. Contact Susie Folkerts at 223-8848.
Mission Custer State Park - South Dakota
June 9-16, 2012 (family trip)
We are excited to announce a new mission opportunity for families! Our first Mission Custer State Park trip is scheduled for this summer in South Dakota. This trip offers a time to serve in the State Park through improvement projects and fellowship with other families. You or your family will have time to enjoy the beauty of God’s creation in the Black Hills and help preserve a wonderful park for years to come.
Custer State Park is a wildlife reserve in the Black Hills of southwestern South Dakota. The park is home to a famous herd of 1,300 free-roaming bison.
A short-term mission project in the Volta Region of Ghana. Teams educate and equip villages in the fight against malaria, conduct women's leadership training and work on improvement projects for GlobeServe's ministry sties.This mission costs approximately $2,500-$2,900 per participant, depending on airfare. Other additional costs are part of this mission (i.e., visa, immunizations and malaria prescriptions). Contact Missions at 222-1520.
Hope's project partners with GlobeServe, a non-denominational mission organization that is committed to reaching the Ewes of Ghana, Togo and Benin - all in West Africa - with the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. GlobeServe Ghana was founded by Rev. Sam and Mrs. Jonhild Dunya in June 1996. As missionaries with Bethany Fellowship Mission, the Dunyas are involved with 30 churches, a Bible college, vocational school, co-operative Food Farmers Association, and preparatory school.
Feb. 4-11, 2012 (adult trip)
A short-term mission project, which combines work and play in and around Montego Bay, Jamaica. Missionaries will work at the Riverside Basic School and the new Riverside Medical Clinic. Some trips might also include medical work.This mission costs about $2,000.00 per participant for the adult trip. Contact Missions at 222-1520.
Mission Navajo - Gallup, New Mexico
March 16-23, 2012 (family trip)
June 22-29, 2012 (family trip)
September 14-21, 2012 (adult trip)
This mission trip is to further God's Kingdom by helping the Navajo people near Gallup, New Mexico. Hope missionaries will be assisting the congregation using physical and spiritual gifts. Hope will work in the following areas: Vacation Bible School, work projects, discipleship and spiritual uplifting. This mission costs about $170 (plus travel costs to Gallup, NM) per participant. Contact Wayne Haines at 992-3705.
Mission Rio Grande – El Paso, Texas
February 11-17, 2012
This mission shares the everlasting love of Jesus Christ in El Paso, TX by partnering with Cristo Rey Lutheran Church, an ELCA congregation in the heart of a low-income Hispanic district. Missionaries may complete construction projects, assist with an after-school enrichment program. The entire trip is spent building relationships with the Hispanic population of El Paso. This mission costs about $375.00 per participant (not including travel costs to El Paso, TX). Contact Missions at 222-1520.
Mission Robin's Nest (Jamaica)
January 16-23, 2012
April 10-17, 2012
July 10-17, 2012
This is a short-term mission experience serving youth at Robin’s Nest Children’s Home in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Robin’s Nest is a place of healing as many of the children have experienced malnourishment, neglect and abuse in their past. Volunteers with a heart for serving children will serve in various capacities including: assisting pod parents with cleaning and chores, light construction projects, and working with physically challenged children. Contact Missions at 222-1520.
Working with Blessman Ministries, team members will have the opportunity to provide optical care for impoverished children in South Africa’s public school system. No medical education is required to participate – they will train you! Another aspect of this project might include building housing for Blessman Ministries’ orphan communities. Contact Missions at 222-1520.
2013
Mission Uganda is a chance to share God's love with children whose lives have been torn apart by war. Join ChildVoice International as we create a community of hope for former child soldiers and their families. You will travel to a small rural area north of Gulu in northern Uganda. There will be opportunities to serve in a variety of ways, including working at a medical clinic, helping with agricultural projects, working alongside educators as they teach young adults basic reading, writing and math, facilitating Bible studies, prayer or worship time, help with care of infants and young children, and supporting staff with sewing, cooking, etc. or helping to construct new buildings. Contact Missions at 222-1520.
Global Ministries Hope Supports Financially
Cornerstone of Hope Orphanage - Benin City, Nigeria
Missionary: Eric Idehen
Established in 2006 by Hope member Eric Idehen, the overall mission for the Cornerstone of Hope Orphanage is to provide love and care for underprivileged children, and for the children in this orphan environment to become educated, productive, self-sufficient and socially responsible participants in their community and the world.
Fusion Mexico - Mexico City
https://www.lam.org/donate/missionary.php?misid=756310
Missionaries: Jonathan & Rocio Mikes
With 28 million inhabitants, Mexico City is the world's second largest city. The most recent Mexican census reports that 60 percent of the population is under age 30. Sadly, less than one percent of the total population of Mexico City is involved in an evangelical church, and that figure might be even lower among young people. The vision of Fusion Mexico is to see Mexico City saturated with communities of people who passionately follow Jesus. Fusion Mexico wants to plant churches among young adults, with the hope that the congregations will quickly become Mexican-led. Lord willing, these churches will send missionaries of their own to plant more churches.
Hope International - Global
www.hopeinternational.org
Hope International's vision is to invest in the dreams of the poor in the world's underserved communities so that they might be released from physical and spiritual poverty.
Mission India - Northeastern India
Mission India is radiating the love of Christ to India's invisible and too-often ignored. They work to assist Indian churches and indigenous mission agencies in planting reproducing churches in a systematic and measurable way. Hope is providing training and resources to launch the ministry of a church planter in northeastern India. Each church planter has a goal of starting two or more congregations during each two-year financial commitment.
World Vision - Umzimvubu Area Development Project
Umzimvubu is located in the northeastern corner of the Eastern Cape of South Africa, approximately 12 miles from the border with Lesotho. The area is home to an estimated 12,900 South Africans - representing 1,750 households, 509 orphans, 294 households caring for orphans or vulnerable children, and 170 child-headed households. Umzimvubu is in a remote area, making it hard for the economy to thrive since it is wholly based on agriculture and animal husbandry. However, most able-bodied men seek employment in mines and farms in other areas of South Africa. The practice of migrant labor has escalated the HIV prevalence rate, which in turn is causing the number of orphans and vulnerable children in the area to skyrocket.
Lutheran Church of Hope is partnering with World Vision to transform the Umzimvubu community by constructing and renovating classrooms and toilets, purchasing a school bus, improving classroom furniture and establishing a computer center for the seven schools in the area.
ELCA-affiliated ministries Hope supports financially:
ELCA Global Mission
Ingham Okoboji Lutheran Bible Camp
Lutheran Services in Iowa
Lutheran Disaster Relief
Lutheran World Relief
Riverside Lutheran Bible Camp
ELCA World Hunger
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